Historical Events In March - 11

1943  Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands on March - 11.   

1944  On March - 11 dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested   

1944  Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1945  On March - 11 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs   

1945  On March - 11 flemish Nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death   

1947  Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold on March - 11.   

1947  On March - 11 victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer, dies at 45   

1948  On March - 11 jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed   

1948  1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir) on March - 11.   

1949  On this day in history juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer, dies at 76   

1950  On this day in history florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli), dies at 78   

1951  On this day in history philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister, dies at 66   

1953  On this day in history an American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches   

1953  1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) on this day in history.   

1954  On March - 11 uS Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics   

1955  On this day in history alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73   

1956  On this day in history louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship   

1956  Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83 on March - 11.   

1957  On this day in history richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68   

1958  On March - 11 charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"   

1959  The HSS-2 amphibian all-weather anti submarine warfare helicopter made its first flight on this day in history.   

1959  The new home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team was officially named Candlestick Park on this day in history.   

1959  On this day in history "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens   

1959  Haydn Wood, composer, dies at 76 on March - 11.   

1960  Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth &Venus on this day in history.   

1960  Roy Chapman Andrews, US biologist/explorer, dies at 76 on March - 11.   

1962  On March - 11 will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79   

1963  On March - 11 somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain   

1963  On this day in history mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies   

1965  On March - 11 indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto   

1965  Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, "The Sound of Music" on this day in history.   

1965  On March - 11 james Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered   

1966  On this day in history military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out   

1967  Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) on March - 11.   

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1544  On this day in history birth of torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia)   

1549  On March - 11 birth of hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer   

1549  On March - 11 birth of henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)   

1596  Isaac Elsevier, book publisher was born on this day in history.   

1654  On March - 11 birth of heinrich Georg Neuss, composer   

1683  On this day in history birth of giovanni Veneziano, composer   

1725  Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807) was born on this day in history.   

1731  On March - 11 birth of robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)   

0222  On March - 11 death of varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½   

0638  On March - 11 sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies   

0859  Death of Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr on March - 11.   

1198  On this day in history death of marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)   

1486  On this day in history albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71   

1514  Death of Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444) on March - 11.   

1575  On March - 11 death of matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)   

1602  Death of Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer on March - 11.